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Employees of companies in the midst of corporate collapse are often the people most affected; white knight investors rarely want to pay outstanding wages.

Canadian regulators are planning to clarify and toughen rules on insider reporting.

Howard Davies, the chairman of the UK's financial services regulator, has raised doubts about how well Europe's widespread financial services reforms are progressing.

The number of securitization deals grew by 14% in 2002. Banks continued to tap the markets for regulatory capital through innovative tier I deals. And even the 2.5% fall in global debt issuance was bearable compared with the near disappearance of primary market equity deals. Last year was still not good for debt capital markets lawyers, but it could have been so much worse. Here IFLR publishes, for the first time, tables of the leading legal advisers on tier I debt and convertible bonds as well as its annual tables of advisers on securitization and high-yield deals. Simon Crompton and Catherine McShane report

Frederick Feldkamp of Foley & Lardner says new accounting rules on the consolidation of variable interest entities show the US has learned from the Enron disaster. These rules could even enhance the prospects of the US securitization market

The Dorchester Hotel, London, March 25

Japanese companies have always disliked the intrusive and burdensome due diligence investigations required for international securities offerings. Piyasena Perera and Joshua Schwab of Allen & Overy explain why the need for capital raising means issuers must overcome cultural, historical and structural concerns

Recent rule-making by US regulators is placing tougher reporting restrictions on non-US issuers with shares traded in the US. Douglas Tanner of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy explains what corporates should know about these requirements and how to avoid unnecessary burdens

Foreign investors are hoping that two recent distressed asset deals in China are a sign of how the government wants the market to develop. William E Bryson, Mitch Dudek and Beth A Bunnell of Jones Day examine the lessons that China's regulators might learn from Taiwan, where the NFL market has taken off

Portugal will soon have a legal diploma foreseeing and regulating undertakings for collective investments in transferable securities (Ucits) under statute through the form of securities investment companies with variable capital (SICAV) and securities investment companies with fixed capital (SICAF).